What is the difference between a regular string and a verbatim string?

Question

I have a trial version of Resharper and it always suggests that I switch regular strings to verbatim strings. What is the difference?

Answer 1

Regular strings use special escape sequences to translate to special characters.

/*
This string contains a newline
and a tab    and an escaped backslash\
*/
Console.WriteLine("This string contains a newline\nand a tab\tand an escaped backslash\\");

Verbatim strings are interpreted as is, without translating any escape sequences:

/* 
This string displays as is. No newlines\n, tabs\t or backslash-escapes\\.
*/
Console.WriteLine(@"This string displays as is. No newlines\n, tabs\t or backslash-escapes\\.");